ICANT writes:
I know prayer works from personal experience but anything I said you would say it was a coincidence regardless of how many events took place due to prayer over one major event.
It's called confirmation bias: If you believe that prayer works, you'll be able to attribute all kinds of things to "answered prayer". But an objective observer will look for a cause-effect relationship.
ICANT writes:
ringo writes:
Mental illness is another possibility. The person who is hallucinating is the last one to be qualified to determine whether he is hallucinating or not.
My doctor disagrees with you.
Really? Your doctor doesn't believe in mental illness? He thinks a person can always tell when he's hallucinating? I don't believe you.
ICANT writes:
ringo writes:
I said I SAW two [moons] at once.
Which is building a strawman.
How on earth is that a strawman?
I'll tell you the story:
In the first instance, I saw one full moon and then another. I quickly noticed that one of them had a smoother surface and its shape was more balloony than loony. Sure enough, I heard on the news later that several people had reported seeing a UFO and the Weather Office had confirmed that it was a weather balloon.
In the second instance, I was standing in a glass bus shelter when I noticed there was one full moon on the east side and another on the west side. Obviously, one of them was a reflection - but which one? I could have done an experiment - i.e. gone outside of the shelter to eliminate the possibility of reflections - but I figured it out using logic and "assumptions".
(Solution: The sun had just set in the west (an assumption based on prior observation). The sun is farther away than the moon (an assumption based on prior observation). The moon could not be shining full with the sun behind it; therefore the one in the east must be the real one.)
Where's the straw?
ICANT writes:
But you did not see two moons from earth.
Yes I did. I saw them as plainly as I see three computers in front of me now. I saw them more directly than I see politicians on TV.
ICANT writes:
So you were either dreaming or either hallucinating.
No. As I explained above, my initial interpretation was flawed, as all eyewitness evidence is flawed.
ICANT writes:
Since you know there is only one moon visible you are arguing and being deliberately obtuse.
I'm illustrating how eyewitness evidence can be wrong. I can misinterpret seeing two moons. You can misinterpret seeing the results of prayer.
ICANT writes:
Dictionaries are what defines the words we use.
Usage is what defines the words we use. Dictionaries only describe the usage.
ICANT writes:
ringo writes:
Who said it was "better" than a hypothesis? Why should it be?
Then my hypothesis is just as valid.
Again, you're not reading what I wrote. I was replying to your statement in
Message 1389: "So a scientific fact has no certain or fixed; provisional making it no better than a hypothesis." I said that a hypothesis is not "better" than a fact. I did not say that one hypothesis is as good as another.
ICANT writes:
And don't tell me I don't have any evidence.
You don't have evidence that confirms your hypothesis and denies another.
And our geese will blot out the sun.
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